Where do boats go when they die? Sometimes they end up in vast ship graveyards, sometimes craggy, foggy places where ships have met their doom, and sometimes spots where ships are deliberately left to rust. There's a quiet beauty to many of these graveyards and their resting inhabitants.

The port of Nouadhibou, Mauritania

More than 300 ships are resting in the world's largest ship graveyard. The practice of abandoning ships here started in the 1980s after the country's fishing industry was nationalized.

Military graveyard near Landévennec, France

Grytviken, South Georgia, South Atlantic

The settlement was established in 1904 by a Norwegian sea captain as a whaling station for his fishing company. It was closed in December 1966, but the church is still used occasionally for marriages, and the whaling ships are still in the harbour.

Double bonus: Japanese Midget Submarines, 1945-1947

“At the end of World War II, Allied Occupation forces found hundreds of midget submarines built and building in Japan, including large numbers of the “Koryu” type. Many of these boats were in massed groups at shipyards and naval bases.”